I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.

The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

A lot of people don't want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama.

I have an engagement ring, which is my favorite accessory.

There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.

As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.

All capitalists should be like Warren Buffett, and he says he should be taxed more.

I also think that there is a strong streak of racism, and whenever we engage in foreign adventures. Our whole history in regime change has been of people of different color.

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

I can't say I have any confidence in confidence. I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough.

I love the word 'dream.'For some, it’s something that’s completely unattainable, yet for others, completely attainable.Choose your definition wisely.

Theodore Roosevelt's father wrote him, "I fear for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time.

Men like snails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.

That power is in vain which is never in use.

The real potential of electricity lies not in providing social amenities but in stimulating long-term economic development

Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

Work in a way that you look forward to Monday mornings